The Green Valley Council is the public voice for Green Valley, Arizona
You’re Invited! Friday, July 12 at 11:00 am – 2:00 pm at GVR East Center, 7 S Abrego Drive. Join SpotRx and Green Valley Recreation to meet their local pharmacy team, enjoy a great lunch from Twist & Shout and a chance to win great prizes in their raffle!
Visit SpotRx.com/GreenValley or call (520) 635-4628 to RSVP and for a full schedule.
August 10, 2019
The annual School Supplies Drive is back in season, please donate supplies or monetary donations by July 21, 2019!
See flyer below for details:
Each ramp between the following roads and I-19 will be closed for up to several hours for paving–
Wednesday, May 15 – Canoa Ranch Road
Thursday, May 16 – Continental Road
Friday, May 17 – Esperanza Blvd 9
Motorists on Interstate 19 near Pima Mine Road should expect lane closures and delays Saturday, May 18, and Sunday, May 19.
Work is scheduled between 5 a.m. and 6 p.m. each day.
During those hours, drivers should expect alternating lane closures on I-19 while crews install a final layer of pavement near the Pima Mine Road bridge.
Ramps between I-19 and Pima Mine Road are expected to remain open. Drivers should proceed through the work zone with caution, slow down and watch for construction personnel and equipment.
Support your local firefighters… and play some golf! The GVFF Charity group is hosting a tournament and YOU could be a part of this event! Please see packet here for details.
“Getting to the beat of the Matter” – Mukesh Gopalakrishnan, MD will discuss different heart rhythms including atrial fibrillation, diagnoses, and treatments.
Green Valley Council (GVC) was informed that your HOA was withdrawing from the Council. We asked to speak to the Board and were denied. We asked to speak to you at your annual meeting and were denied. So, we send you this to tell you why the Council is important to you, your HOA and our community.
Green Valley is a unique, volunteer managed community. It is unincorporated but, unlike most other unincorporated communities, it has CLOUT with the Board of Supervisors, ACCESS to both the County Department heads and the boots on the ground people, and is TREATED LIKE A TOWN. Why? The Green Valley Council.
Years ago, when incorporating Green Valley failed for 3rd or 4th time, the Green Valley News said: Green Valley has chosen GVC as its form of government and that is what the Council is today—your quasi-government.
The Executive Committee serves as Administrative Branch. We handle day to day functions and propose policy and action items. The Standing Committees, which correspond to the County’s Departments, work directly with those Departments. The Committees’ 200+ volunteers are in charge of the operations. For example, we process over 150 Service Requests a year—your complaints about problems with County owned streets, roads, arroyos, and other concerns. We send these directly to the County person charged with doing the work and we monitor monthly the progress on your request.
The Board of
Representatives acts as a large “Town Council.” It decides policy, sets the
Council’s direction and drives our decision making. Desert Hills Estates has appointed
a person to represent the HOA on the Green Valley Council’s Board of Representatives. This representative is entitled to cast a
vote and is charged with bringing back to you, the homeowners, information on
what the Council is doing, the concerns of the wider community, and what needs
to be accomplished. Without the Council, you
would not have gotten $600,000 extra road money in 2017. Without the Council, you would not have gotten a new, 130+ acre Park in 2018.
Unfortunately, your Representative to the Board has not attended a Board of Representatives meeting in well over a year. So your Representative couldn’t tell you, for example, exactly how the roads scheduled for repairs were chosen or tell you that your road, while terrible, is not the worst but that it is on the next repair list. We also don’t know if your HOA President or Representative (if they are different) even forwards to you the announcements of available member only classes and seminars, open Forums on important issues, like our hospital, and events that are important to community members.
Yes, each rooftop in a HOA that is a member of the Council pays $9.50 per year to belong. However, if Green Valley were incorporated—the only alternative to the Council—do you think you would pay only $9.50 per year to support a City government? Do you think having a large voice with the County, a voice that is listened to closely, plus having a Council to act on community needs and concerns is worth $9.50 per year? If so, ask your Board to continue Desert Hills Estate’s membership in the Green Valley Council.
Thao Tiedt, President of the Green Valley Council